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Your Best Holiday Cookie

If you ask us, the prospect of the holidays without cookies is a sad one indeed. Whether you pack them into tins for friends or leave them out with a glass of milk for Santa, this is your chance to share your favorite holiday cookie recipe.
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Week 27 Finalists -- Your Best Holiday Cookie

If you get an 8-ounce container of sour cream, you can mix the vanilla right in the container. We get a little too excited over the discovery of such efficiencies!

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The vanilla-scented sour cream reclining on top of the butter and flour mixture.

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This is the definition of a shaggy dough. Don't over mix it because it'll get worked plenty later when you roll it out.

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Amanda shaped the pastry disk as she flattened and prepped it for the rolling pin.

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Everything seemed serene in the kitchen, and yet, a new washer and dryer were being installed. Why? Because during last week's holiday punch video shoot, the old W/D overflowed and flooded the kitchen 3 times. That's why Amanda disappeared for portions of the video.

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Merrill began spreading apricot jam on top of the dough.

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It's easiest to slice the dough using a pizza cutter.

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Then you roll up the pizza-like slices from the wide end down to the narrow end. You don't want to roll them too tightly or you'll squeeze out the apricot, walnut and cinnamon sugar filling.

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We have no idea what is going on with the washer installation, but this can't be good.